> Subject: Text of TN Senate Bill (fwd)> To: John R Cole <jrc@tei.umass.edu>> Cc: "Laurie R. Godfrey" <lgodfrey@anthro.umass.edu>> Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960226133952.12331H-100000@crl6.crl.com>> To: ncse@crl.com> Subject: Text of TN Senate Bill>> Filed for intro on 01/31/96>> SENATE BILL 3229> By Burks> AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section> 49-5-501 and Title 49, Chapter 6, Part 10, relative to the> teaching of the theory of evolution.> BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF> TENNESSEE:> SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, Chapter> 6, Part 10, is amended by adding the foIlowing new section> thereto:> >>>> Section 49-6-1012. No teacher or administrator in a> local education agency shall teach the theory of evolution> except as a scientific theory. Any teacher or administrator> teaching such theory as fact commits insubordination, as> defined in Section 49-5-501(a)(6), and> shall be dismissed or suspended as provided in Section 49-5-511.> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section> 49-5-501(a)(6), is amended by redesignating subdivisions (C)> and (D) to be subdivisions (D) and (E) and by adding a new> subdivision (C), as follows:> (C) Violation of the provisions of Section 49-6-1012,> relative to the teaching of evolution;> SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a> law, the public welfare requiring it.>>> *****> Expected to pass nearly unanimouasly by mid-March>>> --Cheers,> John R. Cole> (more info from NCSE@crl.com or its pubs......) Sign up--the fight did not> end in 1925 or 1987 court rooms!>>>>>>> --Boundary (ID McKcFujw+X6K8eE6gOdmgQ)-->